Tee hee hee is just the laugh Auden gives Nico, but I never tracked down the reference so perhaps it is Niso Oh happy trying! dt
At 04:58 AM 3/16/2009, you wrote: >To the collected wisdom. I'm translating some lute songs and came up >with two minor questions. > > From 'Sweet Kate' by Robert Jones (1609) > >'Te hee hee' > >Like ho ho ho/LOL/LOLFTOL, or is there more to it? > > > From 'Every Bush' by Michael Cavendish (1598) > >Who is 'Niso'? > >Just a nymph, her name looks like one of the nymphs that raised >Dionysus, but there might be more to her. Some reference I should know >about? > >Thanks in advance. > >David > >-- >******************************* >David van Ooijen >[email protected] >www.davidvanooijen.nl >******************************* > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
